Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-08
OBSTINATE.

The Romans seem to realize how obstinate
 women could be, when they called her muller. Life.
 The Czar is called his August majesty, be-
 cause he reigns in a summary manner.-Bos-
 ton Transcript.
 Ike Hour informs us that the choir or a
 city church Consists of both males, females
 and boy voices."
 There are people in this world who think exactly alike, with the possible excep- tion of the Standard Oil company and the Pennsylvania State egislature.-Puck. One of the teachers in the school at Hamp- ton, Va, recently asked one of the Indian pupils what lbs. stood for, ''Elbows,I guess,' ; was the unexpected reply.-Exchange. The Capital Prize.-"You say you were very lucky the first time you bought lottely y ticket?" 'sYes; I drew a blank and have never invested since. ."-Harper's Bazar. A man may go into drug store on Sun day, take glass of Vichy and eat a clove. He cannot deceive himself. He has not had the drink he wants.-New Orleans Picayune A Lowell minister preached last Sunday on s'Why do the wicked live?' We don't ] know, surely why they do, but we might ! suggest mildly that if the wicked didn't live ! it would be a cold day for the minister's l Some1ville Journal
 Western Art Gossip-First Chicago citi- zen-'I see that Detroit has secured Nun \ kacsy's Mozart" Second Chicago citizen | ''I aint heard of him; but don't see what l Anson's thinking of to let these provincial 1 towns get the cream of the players!' !''-Fuc The Sleepy Look-Mr. Simkins Studying earnestly her new photograph)-"Yes it is very beautiful, but 1 miss that sleepy, I dreamy might almost say far-away, look l in the eyes, Miss Jones-'Ah, MT. Sim | kins, you were not there to telk to me, yon I ee."-Harper's Bazar.
 1 A missionary in Africa found heathen | tribe wo1shipping an Episcopal prayer book l and was encouraged to think that his lines l had fallen in pleasant places. He wanted to | go home when he learned that the heather | had adopted the beck as an idol, on account I of it's gilded edges, after eating the mission l ary who owned it.-Norristown (Penn.) Her l aid.
 l A little ''fresh- air child at Elkland who l had never seen COW before was watching the milking process with eyes full of aston 1 ishment. After looking on in silence fol 1 some time she drew near, and, placing he1 i hand on the cows distended side, exclaimed: l 'Why, she's chock full of it, ain't she!"- Exchange.
 | stSir," said the tall man with the long neck, "I tell you the President is greater
 than his party" '1 know that, replied the l gloomy man in winter clothes, "but there is one thing stronger than the greater. '' (Which is-!' "The horse radish,' said the | gloomy man. And there wasn't dry eye in I the convention.-Burdette. l Waiting to be tackled.-A Washington re- l porter has been interviewing chronic office seeker: ''How are you feeling this morning, l Colonel Placehunter?" Poorly; only wish I was fish in Saranac Lake," ''Why so, 1 colonela" eff was perhaps the President
 might drop me line to come in out of the wet That's what I've been waiting for him l to do for some time past. ."-Texas Siftings. Little girl studying Sunday school lesson | (third chapter of St. Matthew}-Uncle l Henry, what did John wear leathern grid l dle for?
 1 Uncle Henry-A leather griddle! Why, l what do you means
 l Little girl-Why, it says here, "And the 1 same John had his raiment of camePs hail
 and leathern griddle about his Joins, and l his meal was locusts and wild honey'-Oh, see! to cook his locusts on. | And away she went to Sunday school l New York Tribune.